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Donald Trump has given up his previously explicit comments on possible US military actions against Iran and said that the next week would be “very large” to determine the course of the war between Israel and the Islamic Republic.
After the highest leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Washington warned of “irreparable damage” when he received, suggested Trump to negotiate Tehran, but had left him dangerously too late.
“I can do it. I may not do it. I mean nobody knows what I’m going to do,” said Trump on Wednesday morning in the White House, a day after receiving a situation space about the conflict.
“The next week will be very large – maybe less than a week,” he added, in comments that pointed out a possible time frame for the US decision.
On Monday, the Pentagon ordered the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier and three rocket-controlled destroyers to implement the South China Sea To the Middle EastA trip that probably takes about a week.
The US President said that he had not indicated the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the strikes against Iran.
But he said he said Netanyahu that he should “continue” with his attacks.
Trump added that Tehran, who had held in an indirect conversations with Washington because of his nuclear program before Israel, had proposed to send a delegation to the White House before the start of his war. He described the move as “brave”, although he said that Iran was “completely defenseless” and in a “non -sustainable” position.
“Iran has a lot of trouble and they want to negotiate,” he said, adding that he had told the Iranians “it is very late to talk” while “nothing too late”.
According to Trump’s statements, the oil prices fell as potentially lively, whereby Brent’s raw assets had dropped by 2 percent compared to the end of Tuesday before he declined some of his losses.
The mission of Iran to the United Nations, however, denied Trump’s report and published it on X: “No Iranian official has ever asked to set up at the gates of the White House. Iran is not negotiating under forced.”
In a television message to the Iranian people in the past, Khamenei scored at Trump’s call for Tehran’s “unconditional handover”What the US President suggests would mean the complete destruction of the country’s nuclear program.
According to Israel, the program aims to develop a weapon, even though Iran says that it is purely peaceful.
“Those with wisdom that Iran, its people and its history know will never use the language of the threat to address this nation because they will never arise,” said the Iranian top guide.
“The Americans should know that every US military commitment will undoubtedly lead to irreparable damage,” he added.
When Trump was asked about Khameneis comments, he said: “I say” good luck “.
The US defense minister Pete Hegseth said before the congress on Wednesday and said that the Pentagon was “ready to make a decision that the president made about the war, even though he refused to say whether the Pentagon Israel would support Iran.
“The word of President Trump means something. The world understands that. And in the Ministry of Defense it is our job to be ready and prepared with options,” said Hegseth. “We have already restored in many ways.
Should Trump decide to include the United States more directly Fordow, an important Iranian nuclear system Buried half a kilometer under a mountain with US B-2-bomber and £ 30,000 GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penserators, known as “bunker buster”.
On Wednesday, Israel previously said that it had hit a production location to enrich uranium-a process, which can produce both nuclear fuel and weapons material, and locations that produce parts for surface surface and surface-air rockets.
Later in the evening, an Iranian rocket Salvo aimed at Tel Aviv and Central Raline, whereby early reports indicate that all projectiles were intercepted.
Additional reporting from Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington and Neri Zilber in Tel Aviv
